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0 pointsadlpz13y ago0 comments

My point is that the title is not really useful. Something along the lines of 'Using the Scapy library for wireless packet inspection' would be more reasonable. All this 'whatever with N lines' articles when you are using a 200MB tool stack really makes no sense. This is not a 1k demo where character count matters at all.

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xradionut13y ago· 2 in thread

Good grief! Do you want this team to build the computer from discrete components, then custom code their OS using dip switches too?

mctx13y ago

As long as they used less than 10 dip switches

adlpzOP13y ago

Of course not, that's an absurd exaggeration.

Shish2k13y ago· 1 in thread

> My point is that the title is not really useful.

For a developer, knowing how many lines are needed to get something done with a given API can be a good indicator of how generally nice it is to work with -- compare Python's URLLib vs the Requests library, for example.

toki513y ago

This is why his grievance wasn't with the text but the title.

dwb13y ago

It makes total sense when you want to actually sit down and write something like this. The point is that this is an easy, quick-to-hack-together thing, not a big project.

cthackers13y ago

adplz, I can do wifi ssid sniffing using 0 lines of code and only using my mouse. Oh yeah, and Wireshark. But that is irrelevant according to lloeki.

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